Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-03-09

The Partisan Idea of Mackay in
ahe Mines, and How an Artist
Has Illustrated she "Parisian
Uoa

LnG kaEk5HAn 1uCs VI
abe Mines, and How an Artist
Has illustrated Ia "Parisian
Idea.'
In the San Francisco Post OF last Sat.
urday, "Boulevardier," in his Paris let
ter, after giving a description of Mrs.
Mackay's magnificent jewels, proceeds to
8 ay:
1t is interesting in mentioning these
insignia Of enormou wealth to recall the
time when John Mackay was an ordi.
nary California miner, picking away at
the bottom of a shaft at the trade union
wages of 81 a day. At that time he took
his dinner from his cabin in the morning
in a tin pail, and the eatables were pre-
pared by the skillful hands of the b.
nanza Queen.
Dan de guile, in the Virginia Enter.
prise, says: This may do very well in
Paris, but here it will by no means pass.
John Mackay was unmarried when min
ing in California. In all the years he
was mining in that State he probably
never saw a miners dinner pail. In his
time the cabins of the miners in Califor-
MIA were built near their mines, and they
always went to their cabins for their
meals, and cooked them after they got
there-that is, all save the few miners
who had wives. The "skillful hands I"
that prepared John Mackay's grub when
he was mining in California were his
own. Pat him into a cabin to-day and
he will dish up a dinner that would
"astonish the natives of Paris. All
he would ask for in the way of pro-
visions would be O sack of self-rising
-four, a few pounds of Chill beans, a slab
OF Cape Horn bacon, a few spuds, and
perhaps one of those porter-house steaks
that have a nice round bone in the mid.
die. With pepper, salt, and a few other
condiments he would make q French.
mans hair curl.
MIR. Mackay married his wife in this
city, and at a time when he had ceased
to carry a dinner pail-if he ever in his
life packed one. 1t is also news to
Pacific Coasters that there was such a
thing as trade union wages of 81 a
day y at the time Mackay was picking
away at the bottom of a shaft" in Cali
fornia. In sending locals to New
CASTLE" it should always be borne in
mind that Newcastle is q Judge of Goals.
This particular paragraph of "Boulevar-
dier's" letter is illustrated. In the fore
ground "Johnny comes marching along"
He has a pick on his shoulder that looks
like a birch.bark canoe with a handle in
it. He wears a sombrero and q sailors
collar, with flowing Northumberland;
and in his hands is a dinner pail tina
looks like a fig.drum with a bail to it.
AS Johnny marches along he cocks an
eye back toward where Mrs. Mackay is
seen standing in the door of the cabin,
in the background. She stands beside a
washtub with tucked.up skirts and in a
stretched. forth hand appears to be wav-
ing something at Johnny as a farewell
perhaps one of his socks, just lifted
from the tub. On the side of the cabin,
directly over Mrs. Mackay's head, is
stretched a 'coons skin. This was a
happy thought of the artist, as the Cali.
fornia mountains are just as full OF
'coons as they are of 'possums. Perhaps
the placing of the coon skin on the
structure was merely explanatory; was
meant to say "this is a cabin" as the
small boy writes under his artistic effort,
"this is a dog" The artist has repre-
sented Mr.. Mackay with a formidable
beard covering all the lower part Of the
face and reaching all the way up to his
ears. The face looks like that of the
late Sine Barnes, who was ga fellow of
infinite jest, of most excellent fancy"
Even the window of the cabin is wrong.
1t contains nine lights of glass, whereas
it should have only six. Thus are shown
three lights for which John Mackay
never had any use. Over in California,
in the early days, they would have
mobbed any man that had the audacity
to put nine lights of glass in his cabin
window,